{"id":11064,"date":"2017-06-05T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11064"},"modified":"2017-06-05T00:59:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T04:59:23","slug":"brick-to-recoup-1-3m-in-sandy-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/06\/brick-to-recoup-1-3m-in-sandy-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick to Recoup $1.3M in Sandy Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Camp Osborn, Brick, N.J., in the days following Sandy. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brick will receive $1.3 million in reimbursements for money the township expended during the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy, officials said.<\/p>\n

The Ocean County freeholder board\u00a0will be distributing more than $9.3 million to the 17 municipalities, including Brick, that participated in the county\u2019s debris removal program following the\u00a0October 2012 storm.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the storm, Ocean County officials centralized storm cleanup under a single contract and invited all of its municipalities to join the joint effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a program we were, in part, criticized for but it provided some of the greatest results to our towns and our residents following a storm that devastated this County,\u201d Freeholder John Bartlett said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more pleased with this outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The county hired AshBritt to manage the cleanup effort, which came under scrutiny after it was revealed that Ocean County Republican Chairman George R. Gilmore had been hired as a consultant<\/a> for the company.<\/p>\n

Under the shared services agreement agreement between the county and its municipalities, the county would be reimbursed by both the Federal Emergency Management Administration at 90 percent and the towns, at 10 percent for the required local match. Officials said the agreement allowed towns to free up staff to tend\u00a0to other storm related activities and provide assistance to citizens. Seventeen of the county\u2019s 33 municipalities entered into the shared services agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cDebris removal was key and we knew we had to do it,\u201d Bartlett said. \u201cWe came up with a plan. We did a good thing for our towns and residents and we successfully received full reimbursement for it. We got their share back for them and we will be sending them checks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brick will receive $1.3 million in reimbursements for money the township expended during the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy, officials said. The Ocean County freeholder board\u00a0will be distributing more than $9.3 million to the 17 municipalities, including Brick, that participated in the county\u2019s debris removal program following the\u00a0October 2012 storm. In the wake of the storm, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[24,979,66],"class_list":["post-11064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-superstorm-hurricane-sandy","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-reimbursement","tag-superstorm-sandy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/camp_osborn.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2Ss","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}